Pupils at a Kensington school held the front page on Friday when they got an insight into how newspapers are produced.

The year 6 students at Kensington Community Primary welcomed the Merseymart’s communities editor, Jamie McLoughlin, to join their lessons for the morning as part of a reading and literacy project.

The visit was combined with a Year 6 project examining the life of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who kept a diary while her family was in hiding from Nazi persecution in 1940s Amsterdam.

Three of the students acted as reporters to question three ‘eyewitnesses’ to create a news story focusing on the day the Frank family and their friends were found in their hiding place and arrested.

Jamie said: “It was a really enjoyable morning. The pupils were really keen to hear about the teams who work together to make a newspaper ready for the streets, from the reporters who break the stories to the people who make the decisions about the front page and the designers who make sure they look their best.

“I was asked lots of interesting questions and I hope everyone was pleased with the front page we put together for the Anne Frank project.”